It used to be better, it got worse over time, as her interest wained I assume. It may have even improved again, maybe I just gave up on a bad period – but it did turn into more of a circle jerk for a bit, which I had little interest in.

What we’re seeing now in 2012-2013 is the next wave of Internet marketing and related money-making Internet humor. Things online aren’t as innocent and carefree as they were in 2001-2004, just prior to the mighty Facebook Time-Sucking Revolution. Personally I think “making fun of stuff” on the Internet has run its course…the big players have figured out how to easily sell stuff online. The Internet is a shopping mall now, or rather PRIMARILY a shopping mall

Just by the way, April has, in fact, hand-crafted “crap” — literally. One time she decided to liquidate some of her mountains of Hollywood detritus and weird stuff to gather a down payment on a house, and sewed up a whole shitload of “crap bags” — pillowcases with brown felt feces cartoons appliquéd.

My bag contained (among other things) some horrid candy that was tied to a terrible movie, and a copy of Pia Zadora’s album of singing, which to this day gives me nightmares.

]]>By: JonShttp://boingboing.net/2013/02/11/regretsy-is-shutting-down.html#comment-1653407
Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:28:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=212451#comment-1653407 I see what you did there. Adams FTW.
]]>By: Jorphohttp://boingboing.net/2013/02/11/regretsy-is-shutting-down.html#comment-1653358
Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:44:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=212451#comment-1653358Hey, there’s still Cakewrecks.com , for now. Personally, I had my fill of it a long time ago, but there it is.
]]>By: manybellsdownhttp://boingboing.net/2013/02/11/regretsy-is-shutting-down.html#comment-1653356
Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:43:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=212451#comment-1653356She’s a well-known voice actress who does a lot of work for Disney. She did start Regretsy when she wasn’t working and was bored, but when things picked up it became too much.
]]>By: SomeGuyNamedMarkhttp://boingboing.net/2013/02/11/regretsy-is-shutting-down.html#comment-1653238
Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:19:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=212451#comment-1653238Why am I just finding out about this now? So much for getting anything done today.
]]>By: Nathan Hornbyhttp://boingboing.net/2013/02/11/regretsy-is-shutting-down.html#comment-1653232
Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:13:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=212451#comment-1653232Hyperbole and a Half was wonderful – I think the situation is a little different though.

I think that April should have started farming out the drudge work long ago if she wanted to keep the project alive; something that Hyperbole couldn’t do.

Probably mentioned in the original article (?) if so at least you know why people assume that it was a full time job – and it also becomes the obvious reason why she burned herself out, because running a blog singlehandedly is MORE than a full time job.

]]>By: Nathan Hornbyhttp://boingboing.net/2013/02/11/regretsy-is-shutting-down.html#comment-1653228
Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:08:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=212451#comment-1653228April did a ton of cool charity stuff – I had a lot of respect for her in that regard.

But that doesn’t mean that finding rubbish Etsy listings, posting them with one-liners and cobbling together a photoshop montage is so much work that getting 3 out a week was a push.

I know exactly how much work is involved in every aspect of her job, and the only reason it could have burned her out (given the quantity of content being posted) is if it were a hobby she dedicated little time to, she did it full time but was really bad at all of those things, or she got bored.

This has nothing to do with miners in Africa.

[It’s been noted that this wasn’t her full time job. In which case her being overworked is understandable, to the extent where there should be no surprise that she was overworked, for her or us]

]]>By: welcomeaboredhttp://boingboing.net/2013/02/11/regretsy-is-shutting-down.html#comment-1653221
Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:02:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=212451#comment-1653221There’s something else I’ve noticed that would only have made April’s task a little harder. More people on Etsy are acting as middlemen/resellers of stuff that is ‘crafty’, but that they don’t make themselves.
]]>By: welcomeaboredhttp://boingboing.net/2013/02/11/regretsy-is-shutting-down.html#comment-1653220
Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:59:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=212451#comment-1653220I think you’ve construed snark where none was offered.
]]>By: Adam Brownhttp://boingboing.net/2013/02/11/regretsy-is-shutting-down.html#comment-1653208
Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:37:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=212451#comment-1653208Surprised no one has mentioned Drew-toothpaste’s “Worst Things For Sale” blog
]]>By: tinydancerhttp://boingboing.net/2013/02/11/regretsy-is-shutting-down.html#comment-1653203
Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:30:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=212451#comment-1653203All of the old posts are going to stay up at http://www.regretsy.com/archives/
]]>By: Missy Pantshttp://boingboing.net/2013/02/11/regretsy-is-shutting-down.html#comment-1653181
Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:50:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=212451#comment-1653181When CF4L stopped updating we we all knew something was up.
]]>By: Jerrilhttp://boingboing.net/2013/02/11/regretsy-is-shutting-down.html#comment-1653179
Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:45:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=212451#comment-1653179 The author of Hyperbole and a Half had a major depressive episode, disappeared for months, made an update explaining that she had a major depressive episode, and vanished.

Frankly, I’ve been dreading finding out what what happened to her. But at least as of 11 months ago she posted on Reddit that she was still alive, so that’s good.